San Francisco - Joost, the ad-supported, peer-to-peer streaming TV service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, has been added as a defendant to a year-old lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks over the rights to the service's underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, CNET News.com reported.

StreamCast, which developed the Morpheus file-sharing application, says in the suit that Skype/Joost developers Janus Friis and Niklas Zenstromm improperly transferred technology rights from StreamCast in a breach of contract.

The StreamCast suit also names eBay -- which acquired Skype in 2005 -- as a defendant, along with 21 other parties.

"We are taking action because we believe the rights to the Skype and FastTrack technologies were swept out from under our feet, and our 28 million Morpheus users were stolen from us," Michael Weiss, CEO of StreamCast Networks, said in a statement at the time the original lawsuit was filed last May.

The lawsuit seeks an injunction against the sale and marketing of Skype, as well as "billions of dollars" in unspecified damages.

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